Herbie, You say it took you about 2 months to reach an acceptable level with Java. Was that 2 months full-time or 2 months a couple hours a day? How difficult would it be for you to save your graphic results from your demo as a vector graphics doc that could be opened and edited with a graphics app? Would you need to write different routines for the Mac and Windows environments? I'm really only concerned with Mac, but it would be nice to be cross platform. > From: "H. Gluender" <h@...> > Reply-To: <futurebasic@...> > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:08:32 +0100 > To: FB Mailing List <futurebasic@...> > Subject: Re: [FB] How to proceed with old FB-projects > > Pierre wrote: > > My plotting format needs are not met by standard graphing applications, > hence I have written my own solutions. In addition to specific plot formats, > there are also specific ways to sort, find, omit, etc. columns of graphical > data. > > ------------------------- > > Well, Kaleidagraph's two scripting languages (one for the work flow, > the other for maths; and the app additionally supports AppleScript) > does quite a good job for "sort, find, omit, etc. columns of > graphical data"), but I admit that there are tasks that are much more > involved or far away from the mainstream. Anyway, you might have a > look at the demo version. > > Now, alternatives to FB... > I don't see any procedural language with perspective for the Mac. > That said you will have to learn the basics of OOP and then decide > which language is most appealing for you. I've decided to use Java, > but it took me about 2 months to reach an acceptable level. This was > back in 2005 and maybe some obstacles (mainly concerning > platform-independence and browser-applets) have meanwhile been > removed. > > Perhaps you start with a visit at SUN's Java-website. There you will > find a good tutorial that however doesn't communicate much > understanding of OOP which you will need sometime. > > Perhaps others chime in and report about their learning of ObjC... > > Best > -- > > Herbie > > ------------------------ > <http://www.gluender.de> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: futurebasic-unsubscribe@... >